Julius King Optical Co. v. Bilhoefer

124 F. 521, 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 5006

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Julius King Optical Co. v. Bilhoefer, 124 F. 521, 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 5006 (circtsdny 1903).

Opinion

RAY, District Judge

(after stating the facts). Letters patent No. 412.442, dated October 8, 1889, issued to Walter S. Wells, of New York, N. Y., being a patent for a new and useful improvement in eye[522]*522glasses, have been duly assigned, and are now owned by the complainant, as clearly appears from the evidence. The complainant alleges infringement of claims 4 and 5 of said letters patent, which read as follows:

“(4) In an eyeglass, the combination, with lenses, of posts or standards secured thereto, nose pads secured to said posts or standards and adapted to grip the nose, and other nose pads rigidly secured to said standards above and to the rear of the nose pads first named, and also adapted to grip the nose, substantially as specified.
“(5) In an eyeglass, the combination, with lenses, of posts or standards secured thereto, pads for the nose rigidly secured to said posts or standard^; certain of said pads being arranged in the same plane as the lenses, and other of said pads being arranged above the other pads, and to the rear thereof, substantially as specified.”

The specifications are as follows:

“To all Whom it May Concern:
“Be it known that I, Walter S. Wells, of New York, in the county and state of New York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in eyeglasses, of which the following is a specification: I will describe in detail an eyeglass embodying my improvement and then point out the novel features in claims. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of an eyeglass embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a modification thereof. Fig. 3 is a side view of the example of my improvement shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the example shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view showing the position of the eyeglass upon the nose and the arrangement of the pads, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing the mode of attachment of certain of the nose pads for the glasses. Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts. A designates the lenses of the eyeglasses, which may or may not be mounted in rims. B designates the spring by which the glasses are held upon the nose. C designates posts or standards secured to the lenses, as here shown, by rivets, c. In the example of my improvement shown in Figs. 1 and 3, D designates pads secured upon downwardly extending arms, d, which arms form part of or are secured to the posts or standards, C. The pads, D, in this example of my improvement, are in the same plane as the lenses of the glasses, and when in use bear against the cartilaginous portions of the nose. The posts or standards, C, have upwardly extending portions, to which portions the spring, B, of the glasses is attached. In the example of my improvement shown such attachment is effected by means of screws, b, passing through suitable apertures in the inwardly turned ends of the spring and in the upwardly extending portions of the posts or standards, O. I prefer that the posts or standards, 0, and the downwardly extending portions, d, which bear the pads, D, shall be made integral. Secured to the upwardly extending portions of the posts or standards, C, are arms, d, which arms bear at their extremities pads, e. As shown in Fig. 6, these arms are adjustable upon the upwardly extending portions of the posts or standards, 0, so that the pads may be brought nearer to or farther from each other, as desired. Such adjustment is secured by providing the portions of the arms, d, which are secured to the upwardly extending portions of the posts or standards, C, with longitudinally extending slots, f, as more clearly shown in Fig. 6. It will be observed that the pads, e, are considerably above the axes of the lenses, and that they have a backward and downward extension. This is more clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. In the example of my improvement shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and in the diagrammatic Fig. 5,1 employ a modification of the nose pad or pads, D. This modification consists of two pads, D, which pads are mounted upon two arms, d, extending from the posts or standards, O. By reference to the diagrammatic view Fig. 5 and Fig. 4, it will be clearly seen that one of the pads, D, in this example of my improvement, is arranged in approximately the same plane as the lenses of the glasses, while the other is above and at the back of the said plane. It [523]*523will also be observed that the pads, D, in this example, together with the pads, e, are arranged approximately at the points of a triangle; or, in other words, the pads, D and e, have a triangular bearing upon the nose. In all the examples of my improvement shown, the pads, e, when secured by the screws, b, have a rigid connection with the upwardly extending portions of the posts or standards, C. By my improvement I provide an eyeglass which is adapted to grasp the fleshy portion of the nose by pads which are rigidly secured, and prevent any swiveling or rocking movement, and also other pads adapted to grasp the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and to act as steadiments.”

The drawings are as follows:

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